13.5 Verbs with verbal noun complements 683A juxtaposed ("conjoined") imperative likewise may take imperative form
(831). For the option of switching to Shlmpf, see 'leave and pick up' in (932)
in the text (Chapter 16).(831) a. lyaew [aej ae-safu]
come.Imprt [do.Imprt Sg-greeting]
'Come and greet!' (lit. "come! do! greeting")
b. lyasw [seks]
come.Imprt [eat.Imprt]
'Come (and) eat!'c. muss [artss e-saerer]
go.Imprt [cut.Imprt Sg-wood]
'Go (and) cut a piece of wood!'A LoImpfP verb may likewise be juxtaposed to another in its normal main-
clause form (832).
(832) i-tdtt i-sdss
3MaSgS-eat.LoImpfP 3MaSgS-drink.LoImpfP
'He eats and drinks.'In cases like (831-2), it is not meaningful to speak of (morphosyntactic)
conjunction. Extraction processes such as focalization do not treat such
sequences as single clauses. In (833), note that the extracted (i.e. focalized) ma
'what?' is repeated. In other words, there is an "island" constraint on simple
extraction from a biclausal sequence.
(833) [ma i-tatt] [ma i-sdss]
[what? 3MaSgS-eat.LoImpfP] [what? 3MaSgS-drink.LoImpfP]
'What does he eat, what does he drink?' (= 'What does he eat and
drink?')
13.5 Verbs with verbal noun complements
Verbs with VblN complements require that the (logical) subject of the VblN
clause be coindexed with a NP in the higher clause (usually the subject, but the
object for certain higher-clause verbs). The subject of the VblN clause is
therefore omitted. If the VblN has a NP object, the latter usually appears as a
genitive NP with Poss preposition an (example below with 'be ashamed').
However, some higher-clause verbs can alternatively take the logical lower-
clause object as a direct complement (see 'begin', below).